I got some good news on the internet front :D

[Coombzy]

So living in a country road in the UK is pretty hard the internet is horrible, sub 10 mbp speed it's fine for watching videos and streams but it's awful for anything else... I had heard BT planned to bring fiber to 98% of the UK by 2016 and I would of thought that me being in a random road in the middle of nowhere they would not roll it out to my exchange. I checked this morning and it appears my exchange is going through the process of upgrading to fiber I can't wait and I am amazed BT did this it's due sometime in 2015 but still it's amazing they are rolling out fiber to the little areas as well.

[Snickerzz]

damn son, its going to take the US a 100 more years before everyone has fiber

[Vacsol]

Fiber is prertty great. I get 80/40 internet, although I'm on the far coast of an island so my ping is almost always bad no matter where I'm connecting to

[Jodomcfrodo]

woot woot 

[Hendeka]

America now hates you! Congratz on the fiber.

[GzeroD]

damn son, its going to take the US a 100 more years before everyone has fiber

1 people are greedy and don't want to invest in infrustructure.

2 The US is much much bigger so even if they where not it would be a colossal project.taking much longer than most European countries.

 

 

Also FIOS 75/75  it its ever too slow I could upgrade too 500/500.

[Levent]

nice finally getting better there, meanwhile in 2 months im getting 100/100 fiber for 50$ a month (SMALL ISP's ROCK)  B)

[xox]

So living in a country road in the UK is pretty hard the internet is horrible, sub 10 mbp speed it's fine for watching videos and streams but it's awful for anything else... I had heard BT planned to bring fiber to 98% of the UK by 2016 and I would of thought that me being in a random road in the middle of nowhere they would not roll it out to my exchange. I checked this morning and it appears my exchange is going through the process of upgrading to fiber I can't wait and I am amazed BT did this it's due sometime in 2015 but still it's amazing they are rolling out fiber to the little areas as well.

Actually, sub-10 speeds are not bad at all. I used to have 8, and i live in the suburb. I could have 2 1080p streams open at once just fine.

The fact that you call it terrible must either be your ISP or just you

 

And yes, I have the 76Mb packace of BT's Infinity, and I have to say, it is nice to have, but I never use the speed

 

Just as a note, this is somewhat old news, as the tories (wooop woop) mentioned that Britain would have the best broadband in Europe by 2015 back in 2010 (!)

Oh yeah, and here is an awesome site:

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

[Coombzy]

nice finally getting better there, meanwhile in 2 months im getting 100/100 fiber for 50$ a month (SMALL ISP's ROCK)  B)

I hear the internet is really good in places like Spain and Turkey all the people I know from there have insane internet speeds.

[FileCorrupted]

10mbp is 'awful'? I have less than 1 mbp I can watch youtube, netflix, and play games at around 200+ ping

[Levent]

I hear the internet is really good in places like Spain and Turkey all the people I know from there have insane internet speeds.

DSL speeds suck but we got gigabit fiber connection available in most of the cities (if you can pay the 500$ a month)

[Coombzy]

Actually, sub-10 speeds are not bad at all. I used to have 8, and i live in the suburb. I could have 2 1080p streams open at once just fine.

The fact that you call it terrible must either be your ISP or just you

 

And yes, I have the 76Mb packace of BT's Infinity, and I have to say, it is nice to have, but I never use the speed

10 mbp is awful... it takes forever to download stuff, you can't stream either which is something I want to get into. The speed I have currently is appalling. 

[FileCorrupted]

1 people are greedy and don't want to invest in infrustructure.

2 The US is much much bigger so even if they where not it would be a colossal project.taking much longer than most European countries.

 

 

Also FIOS 75/75  it its ever too slow I could upgrade too 500/500.

Actually, thats kinda skewed logic, while america is WAY larger, if you compacted it all down and put all the cities close together (cutting out smaller towns and putting there people into the cities) you would probably have something that is not that much larger than the UK. Its not like they would lay infastructure through the entire country as tho it were blanketed in suburbs lol

[GzeroD]

Actually, thats kinda skewed logic, while america is WAY larger, if you compacted it all down and put all the cities close together (cutting out smaller towns and putting there people into the cities) you would probably have something that is not that much larger than the UK. Its not like they would lay infastructure through the entire country as tho it were blanketed in suburbs lol

Can I have some of what you are smoking?

[Clyne]

Mine sucks as well

[xox]

I hear the internet is really good in places like Spain and Turkey all the people I know from there have insane internet speeds.

...no...

 

average speed in the UK is something like 24 megabits and in Spain (well), my friend in the Costa Del Sol gets 2 on a good day

 

And Spain is bankrupt

 

What you wanna do is live in the city centre. One of my mates lives in Liverpool in a skyscraper near the docks and he gets 700 Megs

[MeltyMoon]

I have fios, 50/15 Absolutely fast enough for me! Although I have no problems with some speed innovation 

[Damikiller37]

-snip-

Once you go fibre you will not want to go back and you will love it I were in the same situation about a year or so ago when I moved into a brand new built area and we had crappy internet and then they got us fibre and ever since we've been with BT on the Infinity 2 plan. It's the same experience as going from an HDD to an SSD.

[Coombzy]

...no...

 

average speed in the UK is something like 24 megabits and in Spain (well), my friend in the Costa Del Sol gets 2 on a good day

 

And Spain is bankrupt

 

What you wanna do is live in the city centre. One of my mates lives in Liverpool in a skyscraper near the docks and he gets 700 Megs

I have friends in the Spanish suburbs with faster internet.

[Coombzy]

Mine sucks as well

In Seattle damn 0_o 

[Clyne]

In Seattle damn 0_o 

I used to have Mobile broadband but i switch to cable. 

[Murdoch]

I can't wait and I am amazed BT did this it's due sometime in 2015 but still it's amazing they are rolling out fiber to the little areas as well.

 

Nice, I'm still waiting for my area to be 'green lit'. Just to note, the majority of the roll out in rural areas is being funded by the Government. With almost all of the contracts being handled by BT. If we were just relying on 'upgrading where it's commercially viable' you'd still be waiting. Hopefully all going to plan, we should see at least 95% coverage of FTTC in a couple of years. I'm just crossing my fingers my area isn't going to be part of the 5% club. 

[Coombzy]

Nice, I'm still waiting for my area to be 'green lit'. Just to note, the majority of the roll out in rural areas is being funded by the Government. With almost all of the contracts being handled by BT. If we were just relying on 'upgrading where it's commercially viable' you'd still be waiting. Hopefully all going to plan, we should see at least 95% coverage of FTTC in a couple of years. I'm just crossing my fingers my area isn't going to be part of the 5% club. 

Indeed my dads internet is not even 3 mbp most of the time so I checked for him and there is no plans to bring fiber to his exchange or even an upgrade after BT messed up the line there.

[Murdoch]

Indeed my dads internet is not even 3 mbp most of the time so I checked for him and there is no plans to bring fiber to his exchange or even an upgrade after BT messed up the line there.

 

Argh. There's gonna be places left behind for sure. Fortunately where I live, there's already a high capacity fibre optic line running along the main road connecting two large cities and all the towns close by already have a date of when their exchange is being upgraded. So it'd be a dick move not to connect us up.

 

I'd like to think the eventual plan is for all existing exchanges and cabinets to be upgraded from copper to fibre. But that's probably optimistic, I suspect that places far from an exchange with a cabinet serving only a handful of properties will never be upgraded to FTTC. And some remote exchanges that aren't already connected to the main network via fibre might be overlooked.

[ExcitezR]

i use to live in a small village in the uk now i live in a new built house still in the uk and it has fiber and it was amazing to go from 3Mbs down to 300Mbs down